Common Name The Protected Bulbophyllum [The flowers are held under the leaf]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found only in the humid, lowland, evergreen forest of eastern Madagascar at elevations around 700 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a zigzag branching rhizome with 2" [5 cm] between each, elliptic, slightly compressed pseudobulb enveloped completely by numerous, reddish, heavily veined, persistant sheaths and carrying 2 apical, broadly elliptic, concave leaves that are shortly attenuate-obtuse at both ends and blooms in the summer on a basal, 2" [5 cm] long, thick, yellow inflorescence mostly enveloped by 3 to 4 slender sheaths and floral bracts that cover half the glabrous flowers and all hidden beneath the incurved margins of the leaf